Earlier this year we chatted with a listener who was drowning in credit card debt. It was a call that certainly struck a nerve with the audience. Did he take any steps to right the ship? Today we have a quick update.
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With employees now spending more and more time working from home, is it a good idea to splurge on a home office?
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With an extra $500 each month, how should the money be allocated? Build up the emergency reserve? Pay off the car loan? Something else?
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Prepping for retirement and the next phase brings all sorts of questions, such as whether to pay for a new house with cash or take out a mortgage? Or should you forget buying and just rent?
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How to you get a boat load of extra cash flow? You pay off $600,000 in student loans, that's how! Boom! That's what our latest caller did, $600k in student loans. Incredible.
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Preparing for retirement can be tricky as you're juggling two very different things, saving and determining how much you can spend.
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Achievement often comes at a cost. Angst, restlessness, frayed relationships, exhaustion, and even substance abuse can be the unwanted side effects of an obsession with outward performance. While the high of occasional wins can keep you going for a while, playing into the always-on, never enough hustle culture ultimately takes a serious toll.
In The Practice of Groundedness, author Brad Stulberg shares a healthier, more sustainable model for success.
At the heart of this model is groundedness, a practice that values presence over rote productivity, accepts that progress is nonlinear, and prioritizes long-term values and fulfillment over short-term gain.
To be grounded is to possess a firm and unwavering foundation, a resolute sense of self from which deep and enduring, not shallow and superficial, success can be found.
Groundedness does not eliminate ambition and striving; rather, it situates these qualities and channels them in more meaningful ways.
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Achievement often comes at a cost. Angst, restlessness, frayed relationships, exhaustion, and even substance abuse can be the unwanted side effects of an obsession with outward performance. While the high of occasional wins can keep you going for a while, playing into the always-on, never enough hustle culture ultimately takes a serious toll.
In The Practice of Groundedness, author Brad Stulberg shares a healthier, more sustainable model for success.
At the heart of this model is groundedness, a practice that values presence over rote productivity, accepts that progress is nonlinear, and prioritizes long-term values and fulfillment over short-term gain.
To be grounded is to possess a firm and unwavering foundation, a resolute sense of self from which deep and enduring, not shallow and superficial, success can be found.
Groundedness does not eliminate ambition and striving; rather, it situates these qualities and channels them in more meaningful ways.
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When running your retirement numbers, how should you factor dividends into the equation?
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Secretary Janet Yellen estimates that the U.S. could default on October 18 if Congress doesn't act to raise the debt ceiling. I joined CBS Mornings to talk about the possible impacts on the economy.
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32-years-old and absolutely crushing it with a boat load of money sitting in cash, what should my next move be?
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My 81-year-old grandmother is not in a great financial situation, is there anything more I can be doing to help her out?
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How much is a big fat guaranteed pension worth? So much that you'd be insane to walk away from it?
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The wish list includes fencing in the yard, a second bathroom and another bedroom. Should we do a cash-out refi to pay for it?
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Here we go, yet another career change related question. Pre-COVID, we got maybe five of these all year, now it seems like we're getting five a week.
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This weekend we welcome Stacey Vanek Smith, NPR host of The Indicator and correspondent for Planet Money, who joined us to discuss her recently released book, Machiavelli for Women: Defend Your Worth, Grow Your Ambition, and Win the Workplace.
Women have been making strides towards equality for decades, or so we’re often told. They’ve been increasingly entering male-dominated areas of the workforce and consistently surpassing their male peers in grades, university attendance, and degrees. They’ve recently stormed the political arena with a vengeance.
But despite all of this, the payoff is, quite literally. not there: the gender pay gap has held steady at about 20% since 2000. And the number of female CEOs for Fortune 500 companies has actually been declining.
So why, in the age of #MeToo and #TimesUp, is the glass ceiling still holding strong? And how can we shatter it for once and for all? Stacy Vanek Smith’s advice: ask Machiavelli “with this delicious look at what we have to gain by examining our relationship to power.”
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This weekend we welcome Stacey Vanek Smith, NPR host of The Indicator and correspondent for Planet Money, who joined us to discuss her recently released book, Machiavelli for Women: Defend Your Worth, Grow Your Ambition, and Win the Workplace.
Women have been making strides towards equality for decades, or so we’re often told. They’ve been increasingly entering male-dominated areas of the workforce and consistently surpassing their male peers in grades, university attendance, and degrees. They’ve recently stormed the political arena with a vengeance.
But despite all of this, the payoff is, quite literally. not there: the gender pay gap has held steady at about 20% since 2000. And the number of female CEOs for Fortune 500 companies has actually been declining.
So why, in the age of #MeToo and #TimesUp, is the glass ceiling still holding strong? And how can we shatter it for once and for all? Stacy Vanek Smith’s advice: ask Machiavelli “with this delicious look at what we have to gain by examining our relationship to power.”
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Even though we're retired, is our portfolio too conservative? Are we missing out on returns? Should we be taking more risk?
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The pandemic has caused a lot of people to reevaluate their current professional and personal situations, and our next caller is just the latest example.
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I hate debt so I'm hell-bent on paying down the mortgage with my surplus cashflow. Am I making a mistake?
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